WHY I TOOK THE VACCINE ?? @KizzyPhD #DrewComments #AmericanRescuePlan #BidenHarris #coronavirus #COVID19 #moderna #covidvaccine #ModernaGang #ncat #mRNA #DrKizzy #kizzmekiaCorbett pic.twitter.com/8Z9Jc4pdFo
— Drew Comments (@sjs856) July 14, 2021
(h/t Rikyrah)
The US only administered 546,000 new vaccine shots yesterday, bringing the total to 335 million, or 101.1 doses per 100 people. The 7-day moving average rose slightly to 548,000 shots per day. pic.twitter.com/H13J5Asbk2
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) July 15, 2021
The @Surgeon_General, Vivek Murthy, says he has lost 10 family members to coronavirus.
"It’s painful for me” to know that nearly every death US is seeing now from Covid-19 can be prevented, he says.
He issued an advisory on health misinformation today.https://t.co/EJCd2GGuAi pic.twitter.com/T7D5K5JN0R
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) July 15, 2021
The US reported +35,447 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 yesterday, bringing the total to over 34.8 million. The 7-day moving average rose to 26,704 new cases per day, its highest since May 22. pic.twitter.com/ei3LlrL33q
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) July 15, 2021
#DeltaVariant is widening the gulf between the ‘2 Americas:’ Vaccinated & Unvaccinated. And there's a lesson for the US. Data from abroad, particularly Britain, suggest spread of the virus will set vaccinated & unvaccinated communities on different paths https://t.co/OP0btIuic6 pic.twitter.com/5RrFCkg1Qv
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 15, 2021
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Rapid case growth is quite consistent across countries with Delta variant dominance
(log-plot, best way to see this) pic.twitter.com/0ejcMuIHnQ— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 15, 2021
Chinese counties target unvaccinated students by going after families https://t.co/p5vjeRaJOK
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 16, 2021
Dying alone in Indonesia's grim battle with Covid-19 https://t.co/FS9GqtOuj1
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 16, 2021
India orders 660 mln vaccine doses amidst warnings over shortages – media https://t.co/GIIqV74yiL pic.twitter.com/0eszSzY4fJ
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 16, 2021
Coronavirus cases in Tokyo have surged above 1,300 for a six-month high, just one week before the start of the Olympics. Health experts say cases could hit several thousand and overwhelm hospitals during the Tokyo Games, which run July 23-Aug. 8. https://t.co/dTJR2LuYDT
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 15, 2021
S.Korea PM says further gathering limits may be needed as COVID-19 cases rise https://t.co/OPVjF96vGi pic.twitter.com/mLofGOtliZ
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 16, 2021
S.Korean youth fight 'click war' in hunt for COVID-19 vaccines https://t.co/mc76FWucut pic.twitter.com/YEqnB3Ck2n
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 16, 2021
Thailand reports daily record of coronavirus infections https://t.co/jRLNz8xI9C pic.twitter.com/gbur9DP34t
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 16, 2021
Philippines tightens curbs after detecting first local cases of Delta variant https://t.co/uiU7xH1Rwl pic.twitter.com/ljJiulmlKb
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 16, 2021
As Covid rages in Myanmar, the Army is hoarding oxygen. The military has ordered oxygen withheld from private clinics and even stopped charities from giving it away, medical workers and others say https://t.co/x2wIDUQY6r
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 15, 2021
Iraq’s doctors say they are losing the battle against the coronavirus. And they say that was true even before a devastating blaze killed scores of people in a COVID-19 isolation unit earlier this week, the country’s second such disaster in recent months. https://t.co/p4QuAQJDGS
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 16, 2021
Russia reported its third consecutive single-day record for Covid-19 fatalities Thursday, with 791 deaths.https://t.co/qd5CHVn1V1
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) July 15, 2021
Music festival in the Netherlands leads to1000+ Covid infections. The 2-day Verknipt outdoor festival, in early July, was attended by 20k people. Everyone who attended had to show a code demonstrating vaccination or having a recent negative Covid test https://t.co/nB6pzXrbQH pic.twitter.com/I2sWVIl2pF
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 15, 2021
Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday that a proof of vaccination (or a negative test) would very soon be needed to access public events, restaurants, cinemas, stations & airports…
Since then, more than 2.2 million vaccination appointments have been booked in less than 48 hours. pic.twitter.com/9lAr52iDgf
— Edouard Mathieu (@redouad) July 14, 2021
Britain records 48,553 new COVID-19 cases, 63 deaths https://t.co/y2wqAUY6U6 pic.twitter.com/TCWKo8JS5J
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 15, 2021
"This is not just a disease of the elderly and frail"
Younger adults admitted to hospital with Covid almost as likely to suffer from complications as those over 50 years old, study says https://t.co/QwIiKVBrWP
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 16, 2021
From @WHO :
"Africa has recorded a 43% week-on-week rise in #COVID19 deaths, as hospital admissions increase rapidly & countries face shortages in oxygen & ICU beds.
Africa is now less than 1% shy of the weekly peak reached in January…"@DeleOlojede pic.twitter.com/6YdmGupci0— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) July 15, 2021
Haiti is receiving its 1st Covid vaccine doses from the U.S. in the midst of a political crisis sparked by last week's assassination of its president. Haiti is receiving 500k doses of Moderna's mRNA vaccine. The 2-dose vax provides shots for 250k people https://t.co/duWGKFiFLl
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 15, 2021
BREAKING: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada could start allowing fully vaccinated Americans into Canada as of mid-August for non-essential travel and should be in a position to welcome fully vaccinated travelers from all countries by September. https://t.co/MfDimwQzTy
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 16, 2021
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An Israeli study of breakthrough infections after full Pfizer mRNA vaccination mostly involved people who were immunocompromised. A study reported in Clinical Microbiology & Infection found 40% of vaccinated individuals had co-occurring medical conditions https://t.co/RDmM2vsCEC
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 15, 2021
Wondering about/worried about the #DeltaVariant? Read this thread from the invaluable @angie_rasmussen. https://t.co/bz0qMyRJu3
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) July 16, 2021
In short:
-Delta may be more transmissible because there's more of it, more quickly after exposure
-Vaccines still work against delta
-Taking other precautions (masks, distancing, limit crowds, stay outdoors, ventilation, hand washing, disinfection, etc) will further reduce risk.— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) July 15, 2021
Covid is especially risky for people living with HIV, according to the results of a large WHO study. People living with HIV are more likely to become severely ill with Covid and more likely to die if hospitalized than others infected with the coronavirus https://t.co/2b5zoorabY pic.twitter.com/yNOxDekmmC
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 15, 2021
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Native Americans have the highest vaccination rate in the US.
I would add, that our tribes have distributed a disproportionate number of vaccines to both tribal citizens and non-citizens alike.https://t.co/eVqoTxcAuI
— Rebecca Nagle (@rebeccanagle) July 12, 2021
Los Angeles County in California, the nation's largest county, is restoring an indoor mask mandate beginning Saturday following a rapid and sustained increase in COVID-19 cases. https://t.co/l3ufywMUCm
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 15, 2021
Robust trade in fake #COVID19 #vaccination cards in northern California. https://t.co/4a3hVLj7pR
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) July 15, 2021
The ‘Call me a grandma killer’ lady is back (waving a fake sock-puppet account):
math is bad and I hate it, but 600,000 > 0, what am I missing
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) July 16, 2021
Cermet
The fact remains, if you have had the double dose of an mRNA vaccine and are basically healthy, you have zero chance of chance of dying and extremely small and trivial chance to get seriously ill. Yet people refuse the vaccine because … ?
JPL
Will the real Jane Kitchen please step forward..
Tony Jay
On Monday, the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, stood at a podium next to a half-drunk Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson and agreed with the smirking oaf that now was the time to remove any and all restrictions protecting the British public from another wave of Covid infections because, to paraphrase, “We’re all going to get it at some point so we might as well cull the weak and vulnerable now while they can have their post-funeral wakes outside in the sun.”
Today the same Chris Whitty is telling journalists that the inevitable result of lifting all restrictions will be a “truly scary” spike in infections that will “slam” the NHS and leave it in major trouble.
The things people will nod along to in order to secure that knighthood.
germy
I don’t understand this. It was held outdoors, people were vaccinated or tested negative, and it still led to over a thousand covid cases?
snoey
@germy: They allowed negative tests from several days prior and counted just got the 1st shot as vaccinated. Also even though the festival was outdoors people usually hit a restaurant or bar as part of the day.
Xentik
@germy: Outdoors has never been a magical solution to COVID infections, it is just easier to separate people and have a larger volume for airborne viruses to diffuse into.
Since a music festival is generally people packed in like sardines, even when held outdoors, that guarantees rapid transmission among attendees because there is little to no space for the virus-laden air to circulate away.
snoey makes good points. Also Delta ramps up way quicker, so it is likely that the time from negative test to infection-causing is a problem if people aren’t being tested within a day or less.
germy
@snoey:
Ah, I see.
Soprano2
@Cermet: Because it’s more important to them to prove we aren’t the boss of them than to get a vaccine that prevents serious illness and death. Also, because they believe Covid is no worse than a cold; why would you get vaccinated against a cold? And haven’t you heard, the hospitals are lying, they say everything is Covid because they’re getting rich off it? The government pays them a bunch of money for every Covid case. And don’t you know, it keeps you from being able to have children? And on and on with the idiocy and lies about Covid. It’s really important to them to discount the danger because liberals think it’s serious.
germy
Barbara
@Cermet: Adult Oppositional Defiance Disorder.
Tony Jay
@germy:
You’d think that having a country right across the Channel where the same ‘Let ‘Er Rip’ gamble had just been tried and (miserably) failed would be an unmistakable ‘Do Not Press Go’ for Johnson’s plan to strip away the UK’s restrictions on mass infection…
… you’d think that, but this is Brexitannia, where literally nothing gets to mean a thing unless it’s got Union Jacks wrapped around it and a close working relationship with the people who own the airwaves and printing presses.
YY_Sima Qian
On 7/15 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 66 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 community at Ruili remains at High Risk.
Nanjing in Jiangsu Province did not report any new domestic positive cases, there is 1 domestic confirmed cases there.
Ziyang County in Shaanxi Province did not report any new domestic positive cases, the domestic asymptomatic case there was released from isolation.
Imported Cases
On 7/14, China reported 36 new imported confirmed cases, 23 imported asymptomatic cases:
Overall in China, 6 confirmed cases recovered, 19 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 4 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 349 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 536 active confirmed cases in the country (469 imported), 8 in serious condition (6 imported), 451 asymptomatic cases (446 imported), 0 suspect cases. 7,401 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 7/14, 1,426.347M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 11.738M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 7/15, Hong Kong did report any new positive cases.
mrmoshpotato
@Barbara:
Stupid Selfish Shitpiles
rikyrah
@Tony Jay:
Just disgusting
New Deal democrat
I was in a Target store yesterday. I was one of maybe 10% of shoppers still wearing masks. This in an area where a little over 50% of adults are fully vaccinated.
Which means that at least 1/3 of all the other people in that store were both unvaccinated and unmasked.
Those people don’t need to worry about getting Delta. Delta will come and get them.
I need to warn people – the situation now for the 50% of unvaccinated Americans is exactly what it was in March 2020: unchecked exponential spread. The situation two weeks from now is going to be much worse. The situation 4 weeks from now is going to be horrific.
Biden needs to sit on the CDC and have them reintroduce masking and distancing requirements (sigh, strong recommendations) to the States.
For those of us who are vaccinated, keep wearing masks indoors, and consider going back to wearing a mask in any crowded condition including outdoors (since there is much more evidence Delta is transmissible even outdoors by brief interaction). Not to avoid death, but to avoid a breakthrough case similar to the flu.
Btw, South Dakota is now the “best” performing state for new infections. This our future: after Delta rips through the unvaccinated this autumn and winter, come next spring after untold absolutely unnecessary death and suffering, there will be herd immunity.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 12,541 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 893,323 cases. He also reports 115 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 6,728 deaths — 0.75% of the cumulative reported total, 0.86% of resolved cases.
Malaysia’s nationwide Rt was at 1.20 as of yesterday. Putrajaya had the highest statewide Rt at 1.32, followed by Terengganu at 1.27 and Kedah at 1.23.
There are currently 114,053 active and contagious cases; 896 are in ICU, 459 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 6,742 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 772,542 patients recovered – 86.48% of the cumulative reported total.
37 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 3,205 clusters. 893 clusters are currently active; 2,312 clusters are now inactive.
12,525 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 5,510 local cases: 445 in clusters, 2,971 close-contact screenings, and 2,094 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 1,619 cases: 87 in clusters, 627 close-contact screenings, and 905 other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 1,530 local cases: 329 in clusters, 651 close-contact screenings, and 550 other screenings.
Johor reports 607 local cases: 313 in clusters, 219 close-contact screenings, and 75 other screenings.
Melaka reports 575 cases: 316 in clusters, 164 close-contact screenings, and 95 other screenings.
Kedah reports 458 cases: 106 in clusters, 202 close-contact screenings, and 150 other screenings. Sarawak reports 423 cases: 87 in clusters, 276 close-contact screenings, and 60 other screenings.
Pahang reports 382 cases: 105 in clusters, 219 close-contact screenings, and 58 other screenings. Penang reports 376 cases: 128 in clusters, 139 close-contact screenings, and 109 other screenings. Sabah reports 326 cases: 100 in clusters, 117 close-contact screenings, and 109 other screenings.
Perak reports 299 cases: 98 in clusters, 117 close-contact screenings, and 84 other screenings. Kelantan reports 225 cases: 145 in clusters, 49 close-contact screenings, and 31 other screenings.
Terengganu reports 102 cases: 29 in clusters, 56 close-contact screenings, and 17 other screenings.
Putrajaya reports 62 cases: eight in clusters, 40 close-contact screenings, and 14 other screenings. Labuan reports 24 cases: six in clusters, eight close-contact screenings, and 10 other screenings. Perlis reports seven cases, all close-contact screenings.
16 new cases today are imported: 12 in Kuala Lumpur, two in Selangor, and two in Johor.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 460,158 doses of vaccine on 15th July: 304,807 first doses and 155,351 second doses. As of yesterday, the cumulative total is 13,107,716 doses administered: 8,949,099 first doses and 4,158,617 second doses.
Sloane Ranger
Once again apologies for not updating with Wednesday’s figures. I was volunteering at the Museum. Anyway, Thursday in the UK we had 48,553 new cases. This is an increase of 32.6% in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,
England – 44,523 (up 6628)
Northern Ireland – 1083 (up 447)
Scotland – 2086 (down 550)
Wales – 861 (down 274).
Deaths – There were 63 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is an increase of 47.7% in the rolling 7- day average. 44 deaths were in England and 19 in Scotland.
Testing – There were 1,210,002 tests conducted on Wednesday, 14 July. This is a decrease in the rolling 7-day average of 2.7%. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on this date was 648,446.
Hospitalisations – Finally updated (someone in government must be reading this blog.). There were 3786 people in hospital and 545 on ventilators on Wednesday, 14 July. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions had increased by 46.8% on 11 July.
Vaccinations – As of 14 July, 46,097,464 people had received the 1st dose of a vaccine and 35,341,428 had had both. This means that 87.5% of all adults have had 1 shot and 67.1% were fully vaccinated.
Nelle
Norway has closed to US travelers, apparently more because of vaccine hesitancy than Delta. My friends, who were to leave next week to see their daughter, were informed yesterday.
YY_Sima Qian
@snoey: This is likely why cities in Guangdong Province required negative RT-PCR test results within 48 hours in order to leave the province or access public areas during the recent Delta Variant outbreaks there. Intervals between mass screenings was also reduced to 2 days.
The paper Angela Rasmussen referenced to is written by members of the Guangzhou Muncipal & Guangdong Provincial CDCs. The outbreak lasted from the second half of May to end of June, good on them to get the paper out so quickly! I knew we would get really granular data (if limited in overall qty. due to the elimination efforts) from the outbreak, with the thorough contact tracing and genomic sequencing of all cases (making phylogenetic analysis possible). Perhaps we will get the same from the ongoing Sydney outbreak, I think the Australian state authorities are doing the same.
I have just completed a business trip to Foshan & Shenzhen in Guangdong Province. A month ago, the Shenzhen airport was shut down for several days due to the couple of Delta variant cases there. Now, it is as busy as ever.
It was my last trip to Shenzhen that got me quarantined. My wife said I was tempting fate to return so quickly…
Amir Khalid
@Nelle:
I suppose it’s better than arriving in Oslo, and only then learning you’re not allowed into the country. That has been known to happen in this pandemic.
JMS
@snoey: So the headline should have been: Music festival with gaps in anti Covid measures leads to Covid cases. I guess that’s not as news worthy.
lowtechcyclist
@Soprano2:
We do. And if they’re dying to own us, I just hope they don’t infect anyone else while doing so.
lowtechcyclist
Or they could just get vaccinated for free.
If Fox News told them to jump off a bridge, they’d probably do it.
Tony Jay
@rikyrah:
I know. I’m starting to think that the whole experiment with being a republic* back in the 1650s didn’t go far enough and ended far too soon.
*Oliver Cromwell, super-dooper evangenocidal prick, noted.
Benno
@germy: not a stats person. Barely passed it in high school. But doesn’t this track? 1000 is 5% of 20,000 and the vaccines have an effectiveness rate in the mid-90s. So even with 100% vaccinated attendance, it seems that about 5% would still, statistically speaking, not be protected. Or something?
Percysowner
@New Deal democrat: It’s probably worse than that. I’m fully vaccinated and I still tend to throw on a mask when shopping in big box stores. Partly to reassure the staff, who can’t know if I’m vaccinated and partly because I am overly cautious and want to make sure I don’t get even a small COVID Delta infection.
Amir Khalid
@lowtechcyclist:
But then that wouldn’t be pwning the libs.
Scout211
The news story about the bar owner in Clements selling fake vaccination cards is an old one. But this is a new one:
https://www.kcra.com/article/napa-doctor-faked-covid-19-vaccines-vaccine-cards-doj-says/37035277
Amir Khalid
@Percysowner:
I’m twice-jabbed as of this afternoon, and I will be considered fully vaccinated in two weeks. I have my vaccination card and a proof-of-vaccination digital certificate on a government smartphone app. I still plan to do the same as you until the pandemic is officially declared over.
Argiope
My road trip last weekend to vaccinate my 99.75 year old grandmother was a success! She had only one question: will this make me sick? And once I was able to reassure her that her case of Advanced Global Rotation was likely to keep her from having side effects, she said yes. As did my 77 year old lung CA survivor aunt with whom she lives (my uncle got his shots back in February and was VERY happy his wife and mother-in-law are now vaxxed. Also, a great aunt (aged 78) with diabetes and her daugher, also with diabetes. 4/5 shots administered! My aunt is milking it for all she’s worth (“Ow my arm hurts come back and do my dishes”) but says in truth that she and grandma did great and had no side effects. Now only my dad and stepmom remain unvaxxed because they are Republicans who believe their vitamins will save them.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Using the 80 hours of paid sick leave the State of California giving. This is taking dumb assery to a whole new level.
If they are trying to fake their vaccination cards that means their employers are demanding proof of vaccination.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Cromwell had his faults, but he had the head in the right place. It is also said Cromwell wouldn’t just settle for having the King’s ear.
Tony Jay
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
#basketcasecharlie
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 2,047 new cases of COVID-19 and five new deaths reported. Test positivity rate is 8.5%. 48 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19, up by one from yesterday with the caveat that some or all of the reported deaths would be people who were in ICU beds so there may have been more new admissions to ICU than the one-person increase might indicate.
Another 20,000 vaccinations were carried out in Scotland yesterday, one-third first dose and two-thirds second-dose as has been the norm for a few weeks now. The percentages of 18+ adults vaccinated in Scotland is now 88.8% first dose with 66.1% fully vaccinated.
Robert Sneddon
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Cromwell was not that keen on the execution of Charles 1 but he went along with it. His greatest achievement was to give the Irish someone to blame for their internecine tribal warfare over the past few centuries.
lowtechcyclist
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
As Kipling said, it’s important to keep your head when people around you are losing theirs.
CarolPW
I live near the border of one of the orange counties with low vax and high covid rates, and my county isn’t much better. Was sitting in the ER of a hospital that serves both counties and a couple came in. The wife told the receptionist that they had been sent there because the urgent care place measured his blood oxygen as 80%. All I could think was “you stupid motherfucker” and was glad I had on a N95 mask even though I am fully vaccinated. I used to be much more empathetic but my supply is apparently all used up. Mask compliance in the hospital, even by staff, was shockingly lax.
Cheryl from Maryland
@Robert Sneddon: Yep – while exporting intransigent Scots to Ireland got serious traction under James I, Cromwell super-sized it.
sherparick
@germy:
I expect some people lied. It has been known to happen.
Sloane Ranger
@Tony Jay:
Wouldn’t have saved us from Boris, except he’d be President, instead of PM, anymore than it saved us from Ollie’s prickishness and War on Christmas. Actually, come to think about it, The Lord Protectorship was hereditary, so, totally a Republic.
sherparick
@Robert Sneddon: The Delta Variant apparently can infect people with only one dose or who only have a natural immunity from a previous Covid case fairly easily, although they still have some protection from severe illness. Time to wear a mask again when out in public and hunker down. https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1415672461111271424
Elizabelle
@Argiope: Excellent news!
Tony Jay
@Sloane Ranger:
I was thinking more along the lines of getting rid of aristocratic titles and the whole Honours for Obedience farago. Wouldn’t save us from corruption, but it would spare us the forelock tugging creepiness of having, for example, a Lord ‘Beefy’ Botham casting pig-ignorant votes in the Lords.
And anyway, mouth on you. I thought you were the reasonable, well-spoken lady and I was the foul mouthed splatter-ranter. 8-)
Tom Levenson
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: still attached to his neck (at least before his posthumous (sic!) execution).
Robert Sneddon
@sherparick: I repeat again, a pandemic like this is statistics.
Any vaccine that’s passed muster in initial tests will provide some protection for the population in general. Some individuals within that population will not be as well protected as others, a few may never produce antibodies and T-cells against this coronavirus even after being fully vaccinated. One dose or two, mRNA or modified chimpanzee adenovirus or killed virus or whatever, they all provide the best possible protection for the population. I say that vaccines are the best possible protection because there’s nothing else in the medical toolbox that actually works against this virus, not vitamin supplements or essential oils or prayer or cow urine or colloidal silver.
I’ve been double-dose vaccinated for about two months now. I don’t consider myself invulnerable because of this. I’m reducing the likelihood of me catching this virus by not indulging in behaviours like visiting with friends, eating out, travelling on holiday, attending sporting events etc. Other people will do these things encouraged by their fully vaccinated status and some of them will catch and spread this disease even further because, as I said before, epidemics are statistics.
Sloane Ranger
@Tony Jay:
We all have our dark side:)
J R in WV
I went to town yesterday, had a dentist appointment, cleaning, review by Dr of a couple of issues. Everyone wore masks. Then a couple of blocks over to the automotive/tire shop for a set of new tires, almost no one was wearing a mask. Th en after 2.5 hours in their spare waiting room, to Kroger’s to pick up prescriptions I called in the night before and a few items we were out of.
Mask wearing was V. low even in the crowded grocery store. Everyone at the dental office is vaccinated, Dr was way into mask wearing, though staff was casual about it. I’m totally masked up even for the out doors farmer’s market where I get fresh corn and ‘maters. Was nearly 7 pm by the time I got home, made BLTs for dinner OMG that’s so good with fresh ripe tomatoes !!
Will be staying home or masked up all the time until there are no more deaths reported from covid. Our family doc, who has a pretty big solo practice, told us last Tuesday that he has already had 4 patients die from Delta Covid!!!
With people pretending the plague is over, there’s going to be a terrible toll this summer, now that it’s illegal to require masks and proof of vaccination. The R leadership is composed of morons with a death wish!! I will not mourn any of those asses who get infected without bothering to take the 20-30 mintues it takes to get a shot. Fools going the Darwin route.
steve g
@germy:
People who “tested negative” are unvaccinated people. If 10% or 2000 were unvaccinated and tested negative, it would take exactly one person with Covid to go in and infect 1000 of them. “Tested Negative” is no substitute for vaccinated; it means “could get Covid in the next 20 minutes if it’s not my day.”
What might help is knowing the vaccination status of the 1000 who got sick, and also how many have symptoms and how many have been hospitalized.
Bill Arnold
Re outdoors and SARS-CoV-2 spread, see this database, covering through early 2021 (updated sporadically since) so it doesn’t cover Delta, but it still should mostly apply with caution about spread of Delta being easier:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c9jwMyT1lw2P0d6SDTno6nHLGMtpheO9xJyGHgdBoco/edit#gid=1812932356
See also https://kmswinkels.medium.com/covid-19-superspreading-events-database-4c0a7aa2342b – the text notes that database is unreliable (including reporting biases) but it (the DB) is interesting.
There is one case (USA1052), a landscaping company, 11 cases, that is listed as “Outdoor”; most of the rest are “Indoor”, the remainder either “Indoor / Outdoor” or “Unknown”.
Attention needs to be almost entirely focused on indoor sharing of unfiltered exhalations. That’s where most of the spread is happening. (That includes in-household spread, to be clear.) When overly broad and largely-useless mandatory measures increase resistance to compliance, they can have a negative effect. (e.g. surface cleaning, and for the most part masks/face coverings outside, though in very crowded conditions <em>and</em> still air masks can be quite helpful.
Bill Arnold
@Bill Arnold:
Re discussion above, if there is a breeze, exhalations/plumes from an infected person do not linger, and are also rapidly diluted including upwards.
rikyrah
@Amir Khalid:
Yeah?